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AUEB-BALab
RepoFS
Python2019–2022
AUEB-BALab / RepoFS

RepoFS

Filesystem view of version control repositories

3Distinct people
3Mentions
0Explicit recommenders
68GitHub stars
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What it is

Filesystem view of version control repositories

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2019-03-27 23:42:06 UTC to 2022-07-21 00:38:38 UTC.

012019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20192020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2022

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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I wish that instead of focusing on this API view of git that everyone seems to have run with that something akin to a plan9/fuse file server was the main interface everyone learned. I would imagine it would work like a souped up version of RepoFS: https://github.com/AUEB-BALab/RepoFS There is a paper to go along with the package which showed some convincing examples that much of the git tooling could just go away in favor of already existing shell commands: e.g. no need for `git grep` when `grep` will do the job.
In Things I wish everyone knew about Git (Part II)

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